In the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio ‘removal of a tenth’[1]) was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort.
and now:
The word decimation in English is often used to refer to an extreme reduction in the number of a population or force or an overall sense of destruction and ruin.
These things would often decimate bird populations. They are not legal to use for hunting anymore.
And somehow massive fishing nets still allowed.
Ducks don’t lay a million eggs on one go.
Plenty of fish in the sea
Here’s a song about what these guns accomplished.
decimation then:
and now:
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